Section 41: Power to adjust role of independent mental capacity advocate
126.This section provides that the scope of the independent mental capacity advocacy service can be extended, by regulations made for England by the Secretary of State or for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales, to other sets of circumstances. Such regulations would follow consultation about where the involvement of an IMCA might prove useful. Regulations made by the Secretary of State will be subject to the affirmative procedure in Parliament (see section 65).
Miscellaneous and supplementary